"A MEAN TRICK"
MEDALS SOLD AS GOLD IMPRISONMENT FOR JEWELLER [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CnRISTCHURCH, Friday On six charges of false pretences relating to the making of spurious gold medals and selling them to gold-buyers, representing that they were solid 18-carat gold, Norris Blaxall, aged 39, jeweller, who had been found guilty on Wednesday, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day to three months' imprisonment. The total amount involved was £29. The jury had added a rider recommending mercy on the grounds that goldbuyers had the opportunity of purchasing medals at their face value. In sentencing Blaxall His Honor said: "I believe you really thought you could not be touched by the law, but 1 also believe that you knew you were doing a mean trick."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 12
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